The Phnom Penh Post
At border, gov’t bill mounts
The financial burden inflicted by hundreds of thousands of returning Cambodian migrant workers has already reached $5 million in government-mobilised emergency services alone, according to official estimates. In less than two weeks, nearly 200,000 mostly undocumented Cambodian migrants have spilled through the Thai-Cambodia border, fleeing what ...
May Titthara and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-gov%E2%80%99t-bill-mounts
Prey Speu tales conflict
Following last week’s street sweep, children as young as 7 years old were kept in Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu social affairs centre, eyewitnesses, staff and those targeted by the initiative have told the Post, directly contradicting government denials offered earlier this week. Standing at the centre’s ...
Alice Cuddy and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-speu-tales-conflict
‘Tiger’ falls prey to linguistics
Tigers and black bears look nothing alike, but their identical names in some Khmer dialects left some thinking that one of Cambodia’s most endangered species may be attacking people in the Cardamom Mountains. Sitting outside his Santre commune home in Pursat province’s Kravanh district, with bandages ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98tiger%E2%80%99-falls-prey-linguistics
Violence ‘cost economy $1.5B’
The consequences and containment of violence cost the Cambodian economy over $1.5 billion in 2013, just under 10 per cent of its estimated GDP for the period, according to the Institute for Economics & Peace’s Global Peace Index released yesterday. According to IEP executive chairman ...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/violence-%E2%80%98cost-economy-15b%E2%80%99
Banking on technology in capital
The Cambodian finance industry is to celebrate the sixth Banking and Finance Conference a week from today, at a meeting that will focus on developing technology in the country’s financial sector. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-technology-capital
Activists put blame on local police
Activists working in Prey Lang forest have accused military and police officers of being behind two illegal timber hauls they have intercepted. In the first case, an estimated 50 cubic metres of timber being transported through Kampong Thom’s Sandan district on homemade tractors was found last ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-put-blame-local-police
Feed plant in Pailin to aid farmers’ stockpiles
Pailin province’s $5 million animal-feed processing plant and warehouse is to finish construction in the next three months and it is a welcomed development for the local farming community. The plant’s owner, Chea Kea, who also owns Diamond Crown casino on the border with Thailand in ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/feed-plant-pailin-aid-farmers%E2%80%99-stockpiles
Solo act taking its toll
It was difficult enough for Savoeurn Dimang when, until a month ago, he was one of just three teachers running the local primary school in Kors Kralor district’s Samrong Leu village. But now, with one teacher having left for South Korea and the other bowing out ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/solo-act-taking-its-toll
Better protection entertained
Workers in an industry where obnoxious, drunk customers and 12-hour shifts are common could gain legal safeguards if a subdecree brought before a Ministry of Labour committee yesterday passes into law. The set of prakases for entertainment workers – which appeared before the Labour Advisory Committee ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/better-protection-entertained
Ad spending sees hike in budget for tourism
The Cambodian government has budgeted $3.5 million for tourism-related advertising and promotions in 2014, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said yesterday. “This year the budget has reached $3.5 million dollars, half of the total budget for the ministry as we will host PATA Travel Mart 2014,” ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ad-spending-sees-hike-budget-tourism
Acleda sets aside $39M for branch expansion
Acleda Bank has reinvested $39 million of profits back into its operations instead of paying out dividends to shareholders, an announcement on its website states. It is the 11th time Alceda has opted to increase registered capital, with the latest top-up taking the bank’s total capital ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-sets-aside-39m-branch-expansion
Homeless ‘went to Prey Speu’
With a number of homeless, beggars and street sellers who were rounded up in caged vans last week still unaccounted for, several of those targeted by the street sweep claimed yesterday that they had been held in Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu social affairs centre. Homeless ...
Sen David and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/homeless-%E2%80%98went-prey-speu%E2%80%99
(ខ្មែរ) សង្គ្រោះជាតិដាក់លក្ខខណ្ឌមុននឹងចូលប្រជុំសភា
ដើម្បីបញ្ឈប់ការធ្វើពហិការក្នុងកិច្ចប្រជុំក្នុងរដ្ឋសភាមេដឹក នាំគណបក្សប្រឆាំង បានទាមទារលក្ខខណ្ឌ ៣ ពីគណបក្សកាន់អំណាចគឺត្រូវប្រើសំឡេង ២ ភាគ ៣ ក្នុងការធ្វើកំណែទម្រង់ស្ថាប័នរៀបចំការបោះឆ្នោត ត្រូវបែងចែកអំណាចស្មើគ្នានៅក្នុងរដ្ឋសភា និងការប្រើប្រាស់ទូរទស្សន៍ជាតិជាទូទៅ។ ថ្លែងប្រាប់អ្នកយកព័ត៌មាននៅអាកាសយានដ្ឋានអន្តរជាតិភ្នំពេញ បន្ទាប់ពីវិលត្រឡប់មកពី ប្រទេសនូវែលសេឡង់ វិញកាលពីម្សិលមិញ លោក កឹម សុខា អនុប្រធានគណបក្សសង្គ្រោះជាតិ បានបញ្ជាក់ថា សង្គ្រោះជាតិបានផ្ញើបីចំណុចនេះទៅគណបក្សប្រជាជនរួចហើយ ដើម្បីដោះស្រាយភាពជាប់គាំងនយោបាយដើម្បីអាចធ្វើឲ្យគណបក្សទាំងពីរ ធ្វើការរួមគ្នានៅក្នុងរដ្ឋសភា។ លោកបញ្ជាក់ថា៖ «យើងទាមទារឲ្យមានប្រព័ន្ធផ្សព្វផ្សាយបើកចំហ ជាពិសេស វិទ្យុ និងទូរទស្សន៍ដោយមិនត្រឹមតែស្នើសុំអាជ្ញាប័ណ្ណវិទ្យុ ទូរទស្សន៍ សម្រាប់គណបក្សសង្គ្រោះជាតិទេយើងចង់ឲ្យទូរទស្សន៍ជាតិ និងវិទ្យុជាតិជារបស់ទាំងអស់គ្នា មិនមែនសម្រាប់តែគណបក្សប្រជាជនមួយទេ»។ ...
មាស សុខជា
http://bit.ly/T6AXMj
Rice piles up as exports slow
Lagging demand from foreign buyers has led to Cambodian rice being stockpiled at the country’s mills, according to the head of the country’s peak rice body. Sok Puthyvuth, president of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), said that with exporters receiving fewer orders, the country’s larger rice ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-piles-exports-slow
Tiger claim to be probed
Conservationists Fauna and Flora International was to send a team to Pursat province today to investigate a man’s claim that he was attacked by a tiger. Ngem Nget, a 51-year-old farmer in Phnom Kravanh district’s Santre commune, reported that while foraging in the Cardamom Mountains on ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tiger-claim-be-probed
Bank pays out after factory boss ‘flees’
Workers at a garment factory that closed without warning last week received payment yesterday for nearly a month and a half of work, but some are still waiting for bonuses owed to them. More than 400 workers lined up at the Canadia Industrial Park gates, behind ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bank-pays-out-after-factory-boss-%E2%80%98flees%E2%80%99
CNRP wants fair coverage
The opposition party is standing strong on key demands it says stand between it and joining the National Assembly, Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president Kem Sokha said yesterday. Speaking to reporters after returning from a five-day trip to New Zealand, Sokha said that, in addition ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-wants-fair-coverage
Border chaos claims 2 more
A second deadly car accident in as many days has claimed the lives of more Cambodian migrant workers fleeing Thailand in the wake of last month’s military takeover. At least two undocumented Cambodian workers were killed while driving through Thailand’s Chonburi province to get to the ...
Laignee Barron and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-chaos-claims-2-more
Gov’t continues to seek new markets
The Ministry of Commerce has vowed to uncover more markets for Cambodian products to help buffer against price fluctuations caused by the Kingdom’s dependency on neighboring countries. In a response to concerns raised on social media, Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol wrote on the ministry’s official Facebook ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gov%E2%80%99t-continues-seek-new-markets
Living on a dwindling trade
In Samrong Leu village, a picturesque community nestled deep in the verdant fields of Kors Kralor district, the acrid smell of smoke fills the air. Outside almost every house in this community, billows of smoke continuously emerge from the domes of homemade mud kilns, drifting around ...
Kevin Ponniah and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/living-dwindling-trade
CNRP lawmaker-elect to visit contested area
An opposition lawmaker-elect pledged yesterday to visit an undemarcated section of the border in Svay Rieng province to investigate allegations that Cambodian farmers have been blocked by Vietnamese soldiers from using land they previously farmed for years without problem. Svay Rieng lawmaker-elect Real Camerin said that ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-lawmaker-elect-visit-contested-area
Wage group agrees on January 1 raises
The group in charge of determining the national minimum wage for the garment sector yesterday agreed to increase salaries annually on January 1, determined by discussions that are to take place in the final quarter of each preceding year, officials said. The agreement was signed during ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wage-group-agrees-january-1-raises
Mfone staff paid final wages
Bankrupt telecommunications company Mfone yesterday handed out the final instalments of unpaid wages to former employees. More than 1,000 former Mfone staffers received the remaining 30 per cent of their unpaid wages after the telecommunications firm filed for bankruptcy in February 2013. Since then, workers have ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfone-staff-paid-final-wages
GTI price drops on day one
After a five-month IPO process steeped in anticipation, Grand Twins International ended its first day on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) with results many observers found disappointing. GTI shares opened yesterday’s session at 9,700 riel ($2.41), with a ceremonial bell ringing at the CSX’s head office. ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gti-price-drops-day-one